I have often been asked by my photography friends "where should I host my photography portfolio?". There are number of online photography portfolio hosting websites like Smugmug, Viewbook, Squarespace, Pixpa and many others, and I can understand it can sometimes be difficult to choose. What we will discuss here will be the principles on which … Continue reading How to choose your portfolio hosting website

“The Delhi Queer Pride is a parade for diversity, acceptance, solidarity and resistance” states the leaflet distributed at Delhi Queer Pride 2014, held on 30 November. The 2014 parade was particularly significant as members and supporters of the queer community got together to protest the December 2013 judgement of the Supreme Court of India that … Continue reading Rainbow Rights – Delhi Queer Pride parade

I was working on a challenging project with an aggressive timeline. I started my days early, woking late into the night and I could see the accomplishments. When I realized it was time to take some rest and call it a day, I still had energy to continue. The hours of work did not matter. Yet, … Continue reading Are you stressed at work?

What makes us happy? Is it success that brings happiness or is it the other way round, that happiness increases the chances of success? In an earlier post on Success and Happiness, I shared: Does success give us happiness? I still believe, yes, though with a caveat that it could be for a span of time. After … Continue reading The Happiness Advantage

photo credit: bizior I have the opportunity to work with few people, whom I consider to be very good leaders. One charecteristic I have observed in each one of them is an ability to stay calm in challenging situations. There is never an expression of panic even at times when things have fallen apart. Most importantly, in situations where many others are gripped with panic and … Continue reading The Calming Effect – essence of a successful leader

"If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Bethoven played music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well." - Martin … Continue reading The power of YOU